IN RE_ REFERENCE NO.1 OF 2006 North-West Frontier Province vs not

This reference matter concerns the scrutiny of the North-West Frontier Province Hisba Bill, 2006 by the Supreme Court of Pakistan following a previous advisory opinion regarding the Hisba Bill, 2005. The core legal question was whether the Provincial Legislature had complied with the earlier judicial opinion while enacting the Hisba Bill, 2006. The Court held unanimously that the opinion expressed in Reference No. 2 of 2005 had been largely complied with, except for sections 2(11) and 3(2) of the 2006 Bill, which required reconsideration by the Provincial Legislature. Additionally, the Court laid down the principle that any violation of section 23 of the Hisba Bill, 2006 shall not attract the penal or regulatory consequences outlined in section 14 of the same enactment.